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Bbl – A command line tool to read Holy Bible(github.com)
1 points by joelhandwell 5y ago|0 comments
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by joelhandwell 7y ago
It won the first prise of under 22 programming contest in Japan on Oct 21st, 2019, created from 2019 August in several weeks alone. Naoto Uehara, the developer was a Python user who started to use C++ and did not like C++ so he created Pyth
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Blawn programming language (created by 15 years old boy)(github.com)
11 points by joelhandwell 7y ago|4 comments
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
>Those limited examples didn't seem to be the spirit of Joel Handwell's wish. My wish is the same wish as the open letter dear-github ( https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github ) signers and not to host op
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
Thinking about the fact that Github have Github.com (production service) and Github Enterprise (self hosted), could it be like this? Github.com = Github Core + Production Services and Infra Github Enterprise = Github Core + Services need fo
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
Thanks TheHydroImpulse for the insights. So Github IS monolith. It really makes sense that splitting is too much work for just open sourcing and I do not see business gain to invest money and people into it. Then possible path might be isol
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
Reading Github Engineering blog posts related to their architecture. https://goo.gl/amkJfV As far as I read so far, Github looks like composed of micro services, or at least split into many distributed services.
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
I did a search and found http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/11/6/product-resque-git... It's talking about a component of Github backend called Resque (Distrubuted Job Queue) As long as I see these
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
Oh, was Github monolith? I did not read any articles about their architecture so I assumed that Github could be composed by micro services, and in that case, splitting could go easier. I edited to "If Github was made with micro service
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
>Why? >What are you waiting for? If Github was made with micro services architecture, it could be split into open source "Client side + Test-backend" and closed sourced "Production-backend". Backend can be composed
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
My words were not clear, I meant and edited to "semi-democratic" way. The voting is one indicator but I also believe strong vision and strategy of leader is the key to success. And my point was not +1 button but splitting code int
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
Not sure if they will join conversation but just now I invited @satyanadella @jeffmcaffer @natfriedman @defunkt @bkeepers into the Github issue. If you want them comment, cast vote with +1 https://github.com/dear-github&#x2F
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
+1 button could work as voting system to reduce that maintenance burden too. Semi-democratic method can be introduced to merge most voted and looks good to MS.
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
Misunderstandings looks like happened regarding my intention. I'm totally not interested in running my own github instance in other server just like people who signed the open letter dear-github to plead Github to add +1 button in issu
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Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project(github.com)
197 points by joelhandwell 8y ago|73 comments
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
Submitted an issue to dear-github. "Host Github by itself as open source project" https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/304 Issue body: Microsoft open sourced Xamarin after acquisition a
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by joelhandwell 8y ago
So https://netplan.io/ was invented to replace them right?
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by joelhandwell 11y ago
For example, 70% of inbox.google.com web app is written in Java and transpiled into JS. And front end is written in Closure. Inbox Android app uses the core as it is while iPhone app transpile the core via J2ObjC. Google Drive Spreadsheet,